IRC log for #gllug on 20121031

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07:52.37morsingArmand!
07:52.38morsingLeeds!
07:54.28Armandmorsing..
07:58.35morsingArmand: How's Sandy?
07:59.42ArmandIt passed close to where my gf lives, but she hasnt suffered any major property damage
08:55.23morsingGood :)
08:56.34ArmandThe place where they filmed Jersey Shore has been destroyed.
08:56.48ArmandSo, at least some good came out of it all.
09:25.19yaMatthahah
09:26.17Armand:P
09:26.44ArmandIt was all too close though.
09:26.53ArmandThe gf had to go rescue her nan
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09:29.49yaMattoh wow
09:30.03yaMattsome guys I know who live in NY State said all they got was a bit of rain
09:30.20ArmandNot "rescue" exactly... but, she was evacuated
09:30.42ArmandShe lives in northern NJ.
09:32.44yaMattoh wow
09:33.22yaMattweirdly the tail end of the hurricane is hitting us now, we'll get the main brunt in a week or so
09:33.54ArmandWon't be too major for us..
09:35.34yaMattna, it'll lose most of it's power in that time, but we do still get some pretty wild winds
09:36.17ArmandHold up.. where the heck are you?
09:36.57yaMattUK
09:37.53ArmandOk.. I thought you meant, you're in the path.
09:38.24yaMattin a way, yes
09:39.03ArmandIt won't be anything more than shitty weather here..
09:39.13yaMattno, that is true
09:41.09ArmandI told the gf, I'm installing storm-shutters on her house when I get there. ¬_¬
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09:49.06yaMattbit late for that now :)
09:50.01ArmandTrue.. but, hopefully I'll have time before the next.
10:27.04z00daxMoin
10:27.19Armand.o/
10:27.50z00daxhey, howse it going ?
10:28.13ArmandCoolies.. playing with my rPi. :)
10:32.46ArmandOvernight Pi smells like warm plastic. :P
10:36.39yaMattdelicious Pi
10:37.22ArmandNoms!
10:38.45z00daxplastic pie
10:39.02z00daxspeaking of toys, I'm expecting something today, via *drumroll* dpd
10:39.21z00daxthe email from them last night said 'overnight guranteed 1 hr timeslot'
10:39.31yaMattbetter than Yodel at least
10:39.33Armand???
10:39.44z00daxI've been checking since this morning about 7am'ish and its still 'Your parcel is going out for delivery'
10:39.52yaMattso it's guarenteed to arrive while you're sleeping
10:40.22z00daxthey are supposed to update the tracking page first thing in the morning to confirm the one hour timeslot when to expect the delivery
10:40.40ArmandWhat is it? *cat*
10:40.46z00daxi guess what its going to be is : 'waiting' till the guy drives around the corner, and they update the site with 'NOW!'
10:40.56Armandlol
10:42.27ArmandSo, what's your "toy" then?? Or, should I not ask? :P
10:42.39yaMattheh
10:43.26yaMattit does seem weird to me that in the days of reliable 3G and GPS that they can't tell you more accurately what is happening when your package once it is out of the depot
10:43.39yaMatteven trains and busses tell you where they are these days
10:43.52ArmandI was thinking that, waiting for UKMail.
10:44.09ArmandYou've got a "tracking" service, but... you don't know where it is??
10:44.11ArmandO_o
10:44.15Armanddafuq?
10:44.42yaMattbut then it seems that all postal systems have a lot of wtfuttery about them
10:44.52ArmandYarp. -_-
10:46.25z00daxha, just looked at twitter, some bloke got email at 10:15 saying his delivery is due between 7am and 8am today
10:46.45yaMattI'd really like a button I can press on their site that makes my parcel remain in the depot until I'm available to pick it up
10:46.56yaMattbecause I KNOW I'm goign to be at work when they deliver
10:47.02z00daxat the moment the status is 'Your parcel is going out for delivery'
10:47.04yaMattz00dax, nice :D
10:47.15yaMattz00dax, that's what I usually see too
10:50.05z00daxArmand: its a computer :D)
10:50.11Armand\o/
10:50.30ArmandI was so happy I got my Pi quick. :)
10:51.02z00daxI have a raspi as well, no idea what to do with it :(
10:51.23z00daxcorrection, i have 3 raspi's
10:51.43ArmandO_O
10:51.52z00daxone I bought, the other two were given to me by other people who failed to arrive at a suiteable use for said device
10:52.04ArmandI'm using mine as a webserver
10:52.11ArmandI need more.. lol
10:52.30z00daxwebserver for what ?
10:52.54z00daxa shared hosting $1.99/yr account from dreamhosts or someone might be more potent
10:53.10ArmandTrue, but... it wouldn't be mine.
10:53.37ArmandI'm doing this to expand my skillset. :)
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11:06.10morsingwethrin_!
11:20.00yaMattz00dax, anything on this DevOps meetup?
11:21.39z00daxaparently John is going to bring the machine around 1'sh - lets see how that works out
11:21.48z00daxyaMatt: there is something planned for the 29th Nov
11:22.08z00daxthe overall feeling in that group is - just have meetup's with no real agenda, so people can come and chat and go away
11:23.16z00daxyaMatt: has much to do with the fact that most people in that group are already doing things at a common level
11:23.25z00daxand most people just want to talk about the issues they have
11:31.15yaMattz00dax, common level?
11:32.10yaMattI've been trying to set up the next meet but have been getting bugger-all response from the people I've contacted
11:32.24yaMattI wanted Nov 10th, but it looks like that is now going to slip
11:32.40yaMattproblem is I'm moving house the week after that so that kind of limits what I can do
11:32.56yaMattmight put a message along those lines to the ML
11:33.26z00daxyaMatt: common level as in, most of the guys there have 8 - 10 years of admin under the hood and are mostly doing webops type things
11:33.55z00daxit wont be wrong to say that for new people trying to get in, its almost hostile :) lots of homework and buzzword decoding on the fly needed
11:34.26z00daxI can most likely do the 10th Nov
11:34.46z00daxbut not any other weekend till Jan next year
11:35.53yaMattah, doesn't sound ideal
11:36.34yaMattwell I would like to give as much notice as possible and considering I'm getting no response from the people I've contacted about putting on events and their respective locations it might be difficult in the first place
11:36.50z00daxyeah, i know how that goes
11:37.14yaMattwould ideally like to give minimum of 2 weeks notice, but we're already behind that
11:40.00yaMattgoing to try angry e-mails now :D
11:40.34yaMattGoogle Campus was if anything too eager for me to book
11:48.47z00daxare you going to have people come and speak ?
11:48.57yaMattthat's the other problem
11:49.16yaMattI've got some who said they would, need to check whether they can
11:49.18z00daxone thing that worked for me was to ask those people to promote the talk via their own social / blog media - so they target an audience already established
11:49.27yaMattah, good idea
11:51.25z00daxthe other thing was that keeping Sean involved meant that he would promote the meeting in the university as well - and that can be a good source of interesting people who stay interested
11:52.28z00daxanother tip : remember that people like agk know everyone ( not kidding, he knows everyone! ) and can be a good resource to open doors to interesting people who are usually willing to come talk
11:53.26yaMattyeah, saw him at the IET RPi talk the other day, he really does know everyone
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13:40.16z00daxi have toys
13:40.43z00daxalso, surprised that the email from delivery company said that person will be here about 1:03pm
13:40.48z00daxand he rang the bell at 1:04
13:41.03z00dax( and the email did come through about 3 hrs before he got here )
13:42.32AndyMillarthat's surprisingly accurate
13:43.50ArmandI've solved my network cable issue... Need to find my bloody network switch now. ¬_¬
13:44.10ArmandOhh, and then get more Pi. ^_^
13:44.38yaMattcan never have too much Pi
13:45.05ArmandWell, it would be nice if I had 3 more of the new Model B.
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13:57.50yaMattthink I determined why I was getting no response from Mozilla Spaces
13:57.57yaMattwell, not a reason to not respond
13:58.13yaMattbut they have a booking in there, the Mozilla Festival, which isn't on their Calendar
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21:27.35morsinglondo_!
21:31.36Armandmorsing!
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